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    A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues"
    A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues"
    A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues"
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    A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues"

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    A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535840446
    A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues"

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      A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues" - Gale

      11

      The Weary Blues

      Langston Hughes

      1925

      Introduction

      The publication of The Weary Blues in 1925 was the centerpiece of one of the most successful publicity stunts in literary history, one that elevated its author, Langston Hughes, to fame as a leading African American writer. Hughes thought of himself as a poet, but like most modern poets, found that he had to write in other formats to support himself, and so he was also a short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and newspaper columnist. Hughes is generally ranked among the greatest African American writers of the first half of the twentieth century; he is slightly older than the novelists Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, who are the best comparisons for his literary achievement. Hughes is a figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the flourishing of black artistic achievement centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City during the 1920s. Hughes was widely traveled, and his aesthetic and political views were informed by the wider perspective of an international black community embracing Paris, Africa, and the Caribbean. The Weary Blues was written at the beginning of Hughes's career. It brought him popularity in the black community as a leading poet and representative voice, as well as in the American scene at large, popularity that had him using his summer breaks from college for national book tours.

      Author Biography

      James Langston Hughes usually stated that he was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, but with no birth certificate, he was not completely certain. This uncertainty can stand, perhaps, as a symbol of the marginal nature of the world he was born into, a world in which African Americans were treated as something less than full citizens because of the segregation and discrimination written into the legal codes and accepted in society. Hughes's mother, Carrie, came from an upper level of the African American community. (Her uncle, for instance, was a congressman during Reconstruction, an American diplomat, and eventually the president

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